Chapter Twenty-Two
Jacob and I spoke for a few hours, at first it was hard to decode what he was trying to say without actually saying it. But after awhile, it became easy and I feel like we got somewhere. Don't get me wrong, I'm still terrified that Markus might find out where I don't even want to imagine what he'd do, but I'm less alarmed than I was before I spoke to Jacob today.
He told me to keep my head down and focus on staying alive, at first I thought he was being dramatic but I knew how Markus was. He said it was good I hadn't been around Markus much, apparently, he's on this destructive rampage right now. This only worried me due to Austin being around him constantly, but I knew how important Austin was for Markus's business so he couldn't do anything that bad to him. I tried to make him explain to me what he meant by destructive rampage, but he told me as I have to be around Markus a lot he didn't want to scare him. But him telling me that alone, only scared me more!
Just before he left he gave me a pen, he said if I ever feel like I'm in danger I should still text him danger. But if I feel like it's a life or death moment, to pull the cap from that pen and hold the button down for 5 seconds. That would alert the police from all around to come and help me, this only concerned me more as I knew this probably meant whatever rampage he keeps talking about must be bad.
I was walking up the steps to our apartment, whenever I've had a long day, walking these steps is just tiring and annoying. As I reach the top step, I see two dudes who I've never seen before leave the apartment. They spot me walking towards them where they both look me up and down, before we could exchange any words Austin appears at the front door. They turn to look at him where he raises an eyebrow, they turn around a little panicked before hurriedly walking down the steps away.
'Who are they?" I ask pointing at the two dudes who ran straight over to a car, Austin walks over taking my hand and pulling me into the apartment.
'Just some guys from work, don't worry these listen to me and not Markus" he tells me once he shut the door, I thought we went over the fact that I didn't want people he worked with to be in our home.
Before I could discus this further, I turn around to face the living room where I'm immediately, at a lost for words. The living room was no longer trashed, all the broken furniture had been removed and replaced with brand new things. The two smashed windows had also been replaced, even the photo of me and the guys sat back on the mantle piece in a brand new frame.
'I spoke with Markus and explained about the house, he told me he'd give me the day off to clean the house for you while you were away. Those two guys are my new team, Markus thought it would good training for them to help me" Austin smiles from behind me as I continue to look around the house. 'I didn't want you feeling obligated to fix this house up, when it was my fault it got trashed and you got attacked in the first place" he says with a sigh, I turn around to look at him where he stood with his face looking down.
I walk over wrapping one of my arms around him for a side hug, he smiles wrapping his arm around me holding me tightly.
'This is so nice of you Austin, please stop blaming yourself for what happened, as I've said we're in this together now" I say holding him tightly with my head on his shoulder. 'We will find a way out of this situation together" I say where he doesn't speak but holds me even tighter, I of course don't want him to blame himself for anything that happened.
'So how was coffee with Jacob?" He asks as I pull away from the hug, while he takes a seat at the brand new table, I wonder what Roman will think when he sees this.
'It was actually nice to catch up after all these years, we both said we'd have to do it again sometime" I explain with a smile, at least I was successfully keeping up with this whole story still.
'You should, it nice to see you getting out there and not staying cooped up in this house afraid" he says thankfully, believing the story I was being forced to tell him.
'Why would I be scared, I have you to protect me" I smile sweetly at him before walking to the kitchen to grab something to eat, back when I had the coffee I was too busy trying to keep up with the conversation that I didn't eat.
'You know I always will" he says with a smile still sitting at the table, I smile whilst opening the fridge that blocked my view from him for a couple of seconds.
'So where did you find those guys?" I ask appearing from the fridge with a yogurt, while also handing Austin a spoon to share it with me.
'I didn't, Markus told me I was taking too long to find guys to replace the other two, according to him that was a clear indication that I didn't like my job and was trying to slack off" he says whilst taking the first spoonful of yogurt, I just roll my eyes about Markus before also eating the yogurt which was so nice!
'Well sooner or later, you'll be free from that man" I smile while he sends me a raised eyebrow but does smile, I knew he didn't believe me but soon he'll see, Markus will pay one way or another.